what's the point of function template declarations if they can't be defined?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 09:42:08 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> I guess you mean `version(StdDdoc)` ?
>
> On that note, I see things like this, which are not DRY:

This is actually one of the reasons why I abandoned dmd for my 
dpldocs.info fork and used an independent parser.

dmd tries to build docs as it builds the program, but these are 
slightly contradictory - when building the program, you need to 
honor versioned out blocks. When building the docs, you just want 
it documented, not ignored. dmd is (rightfully) prioritized 
toward building actual code, but that leaves doc generation a bit 
second-hand.

To work around dmd's clashing goals, version(StdDdoc) manually 
makes a separate doc branch.

Whereas my doc generator just shows them all, bringing the 
version into the definition. 
http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/arsd.simpledisplay.XDisplayConnection.html